Monthly Archives: November 2007

A slower pace of life

By Alice | Published: November 15, 2007

Ok so my lovely new Dutch bike broke down this morning when the mechanism froze. After half and hour kneeling on a frozen bridge coaxing the mechanism I took it back to it’s original source to be mended Рby a real live Dutch man no less! Fingers crossed for a cheap and swift solution [...]

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Classy and hip? Ha!

By Alice | Published: November 14, 2007

Ok so I re-did the inside of the diary, it’s better to have it without the little irks. I also took the opportunity to add in things like when there is a full moon and a new moon Рno reason, just for kicks! Also I put in when things like Yom Kippur and Ramadan [...]

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A parcel, dinner and a diary

By Alice | Published: November 13, 2007

So anyway I have few things to post about today (so more yellow photos that I took when I got home after dark!). I was very pleased to get this slightly crazy looking box at work today. It looks like it was fashioned out of a Japanese Special K cereal box or something. Inside was [...]

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Crayons and frost

By Alice | Published: November 12, 2007

Frost and red gold leaves. Wah, it’s cold in the mornings now. Just about managing the 6:30am wake-up. ***** On the weekends my dad and I have been clearing out some old things of my grandma and granddad and at the bottom of a box of papers I found this box. The box itself was [...]

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Roasted Pears

By Alice | Published: November 11, 2007

This evening, these… Became these… Upclose… With greek yogurt… And some mulled wine… Nice! Earlier today I read the recipe here and by co-incidence was given some pears this afternoon and thought I would try this out. This is a very forgiving recipe that I am sure could be tweaked around. Maybe some brandy?

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